Original Date: April 10, 2026
Gender Responsive Budgeting in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries focuses on the importance of macroeconomic theories, conceptual and empirical tools, including data analytics, in promoting gender equity in government financial management systems (PFM). Emerging in the 1980s, gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) explores whether gender equality programs are being effectively funded, especially through government budgets, and that women participate in the budgeting process. GRBs thereby ensure governments’ accountability to women for their contributions to government revenue generation, and that governments adopt GRBs as a smart economic choice, given the much-documented negative impacts of gender inequality on the growth process itself. The book explores GRB practice across major economic sectors in selected developing countries over the period 2000 to 2020 to elaborate on the progress and challenges implementation, and, more broadly, of integrating women’s perspectives into economic policy processes. The consensus is that a lot more needs to be done to promote the use of GRBs to empower women for greater economic participation, which in turn will promote their voices in politics and leadership. Finally, the need for a stronger coalition across countries is evident to drive greater traction for GRBs. Additional information about the book is available here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/gender-and-development-in-nigeria-9781498564762/
About Bola Ankanji
Bola Akanji holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a postgraduate certificate in gender and macroeconomics from the University of Utah, and an International Development from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She retired as a research professor from the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) where she worked for twenty-five years in policy research and advisory for government, private sector and multilateral development organizations on sector strategies across Nigeria’s three levels of government. Her work centered on gender and other structural studies in agriculture and rural economic development. She is currently an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut teaching macroeconomics, women and gender studies, and gender and economics. She also consults for multilateral and bilateral development organizations, including UNWomen, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), among others, on gender issues in Africa’s agrifood system, as well as on broader issues such as food security, women’s economic empowerment, and gender mainstreaming into economic policies and programs. She has authored and co-authored several books related to gender structures in the social and economic policy processes of Nigeria and African countries.